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People, Places & Piazzas The Life & Art of Charles Hodge Mackie

Clark Pat

ISBN: PB: 9781908326911, Casemate, Sansom & Co, October 2016
176 pp., 24.4x17.2 cm, 40 colour illus.

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Album Picabia

Calte Beverley

ISBN: PB: 9780300225563, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2016
224 pp., 29.8x22.9 cm, 220 colour and black&white illus.

Album Picabia is an inspiring, artistic chronicle of Francis Picabia's life (1879-1953) as seen through the eyes of his last wife and creative protegee, Olga Mohler Picabia. Begun in 1936, four years before their marriage, and left unfinished in 1951...

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Jewish Studies

Venice, the Jews, and Europe 1516-2016

Calabi Donatella

ISBN: HB: 9788831724944, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
536 pp., 30.4x20.3 cm, 241 colour illus., 11 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Five hundred years of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice through art. This book aims to tell the story of the Ghetto of Venice, the first in the world – the way it grew within itself, its architecture, social makeup, crafts and t...

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Dyer's Handbook Memoirs of an 18th Century Master Colourist

Cardon Dominique

ISBN: HB: 9781785702112, Casemate, Oxbow Books, June 2016
160 pp., 29.7x21 cm

Persian blue, pomegranate flower, spiny lobster, wine soup, pale flesh, dove breast, golden wax, grass green, green sand, rotten olive, modest plum, agate, rich French gray, gunpowder of the English... these are just some of the colour names of old f...

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Collecting for the Public Works That Made a Difference

Cornelis Bart, Luijten Ger, van Tilborgh Louis, Zeedijk Tim

ISBN: HB: 9781911300045, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, June 2016
240 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 90 colour illus.

There was a time when museums might have been regarded as rather forbidding and austere centres of learning, but today they are more likely to position themselves firmly within the tourism and leisure industry with all manner of food, fun and family...

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Adriaen Van de Velde Dutch Master of Landscape

Cornelis Bart, Schapelhouman Marijn

ISBN: PB: 9781907372964, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, June 2016
200 pp., 28x24 cm, 130 colour illus.

A Dutch Italianate, Adriaen Van de Velde represents a point of artistic crosscommunication across borders, fusing agricultural landscapes in Holland with mythological Arcadian scenes in Italian settings. He died at the early age of 35, and yet he pro...

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Mark Rothko

Cohen-Solal Annie

ISBN: PB: 9780300219685, ISBN: HB: 9780300182040, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Mark Rothko was not only one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century; he was a scholar, an educator, and a deeply spiritual human being. Born Marcus Yakovlevich Rotkovitch, he emigrated from the Russian Empire to the United...

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Ji Yun-Fei Last Days of Village Wen

Chung Anita

ISBN: PB: 9780300220322, Yale University Press, April 2016
80 pp., 25.4x29.2 cm, 50 colour illus.

Drawing upon the Cleveland Museum of Art's world-renowned collection of Chinese paintings, this volume presents an insightful study of a newly acquired work that occasions dialogue between traditional forms of art and contemporary environmental issue...

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Kamakura Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan

Covaci Ive

ISBN: HB: 9780300215779, Yale University Press, February 2016
192 pp., 29.9x22.2 cm, 65 colour illus.

The Kamakura period (1185-1333) is considered a pinnacle of Japanese artistic expression, often described as a renaissance in Buddhist art. This catalogue is the first in over two decades to examine the exquisite sculpture of this period, artwork cha...

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Diaries of Randolph Schwabe British Art 1930-48

Clarke Gill

ISBN: PB: 9781908326874, Casemate, Sansom & Co, February 2016
592 pp., 24.4x16.8 cm, colour illus.

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